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by innerspirit 2698 days ago
Interesting how I did not notice any issues with the library until I came to the comments and there were several mentions of implicit racism. There is some projection going on here.

Upon reviewing the site again, there are some lighter skin tones that I would identify with as a pale white man, if I really cared.

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The commenters jumping all over the "I'm not represented" angle are likely the same people who would opine "identity politics is killing this country" if the situation were reversed.

Either way, these are SVG files and can be edited to switch out colors. That's the whole point of a library like this.

>Upon reviewing the site again, there are some lighter skin tones that I would identify with as a pale white man,

I looked through it and I have to disagree, the skin tones are all dark. There is no reason to call that racist though, maybe the author just doesn't see a lot of white people in whatever country they live in.

Edit: ouch, I guess my optimism was misplaced. Given that he's from California, it really does look like the author was making a political statement.

It appears he lives in California https://mobile.twitter.com/pablostanley